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4/15/2014 1:20PM

Opinion: NYC’s ‘Social Promotion’ for Failing Schools

Political Diary editor Jason Riley on how Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan for “social promotion” regardless of achievement would have a disastrous effect on New York’s neediest children. Photo credit: Getty Images.

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... I ... I ... the ... Concerto I'm Mary Kissel ... the city's mayor buildable Ozzie oh and his schools chancellor Carmen Farina ... have announced the return of something called social promotion ... he explained is clinical diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley ... is what what what is this concept social promotion will suffer promotion is when you move a child the next great ... regardless of whether that out new work ... at the next day to basically moving them along based on the ranch while we went to see that ... well this is the policy um the the the the the thinking behind this that that I will make up that work in the next great remedial education and so forth ... and that's been on ... what proponents of the acclaimed ... but it's interesting that cities and states have been moving away from that over the past two decades of Texas Florida ... New York City we headed it back ... in the early two thousand under Mayor DeBlasio is predecessor Mike Wilkinson the mayor has the power to say oh you failed but were granted for money look anyway ... while there we have male control and in New York City Southern their debts have of ... of a lot of leeway when it comes to education policy and what he said is that we are going to rely less ... on a test to determine whether the child is ready for the next great and that's what his predecessor did he said ... you have to pass the test this for a certain level of its past in order to move the next great never boss has been one of the Nazis set lower standards for the foreign mostly minority kids ... that it can enter in these financial ... elites that slower standards but the social science on this that show ... that holding kids back until they are ready actually helps them down the road ... and and that when you make it into the next great before he or she is ready YouTube that fall further behind the more likely to fall further behind than a catch up to grade someone here so instead of raising standards ... and meeting with the charter schools are achieving ... new York City public schools or ... I just ... my ... because it seems is that ... the leftists has given up on this and saying ... that ... the UN teachable the next call ... aam but that that matters we have modeled all over New York City charter schools ... Catholic school voucher programs and software that show that these kids can be caught so the public so the problem is the public schools ... the kids ... Telefónica who can click on fire and Jason Riley with that very depressing ... day ... thank you so much for joining us